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The Seychelles Experience
Marie-May Jeremie & Annike Faure

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 Supplementary funding to the country in
addition to the UNDP-GEF EA Project
 Help develop and assess New tools
 Part of the African Leadership group
 Networking and experience sharing with the
other project countries
 Expert advice

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 Since the project started in 2012, we have been
exposed to many tools to better assist us in
mainstreaming biodiversity into other sectors
back home
 The rapid diagnostic tool helped us to identify
the works where we were already
mainstreaming as well as those areas where
more effort was needed
 Ten steps in mainstreaming biodiversity
 Learnt how to prepare our business case for
biodiversity

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 Importance of integrating NBSAPs within
National Development Plans

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 Mainstreaming Biodiversity Project-has allowed us to start
mainstreaming BD into specific sectors:
1.harmonisation of environment and land use planning legislations.
2. shared management of ecologically important areas with
owner/operators of tourism establishments
3. Community based involvement- co-management system between
the Seychelles Fishing Authority and the artisanal fishers
 Other ways of mainstreaming ; (i)The NBSAP revision process-
used the Seychelles Sustainable Development Strategy (SSDS) as
the main guidance for our new draft NSAP.
(ii) creation of an NBSAP implementation unit(within the SSDS
council- directly feeds backs to the National development plan to
facilitate integration

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